The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deuterocanonical
Deuterocanonical \Deu`ter*o*ca*non"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ? second + E. canonical.] Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.
Wiktionary
deuterocanonical
a. (context biblical English) Being of the second canon of the Old Testament of the Bible, and unaccepted by some Christians. A book which is part of the Apocrypha.
Usage examples of "deuterocanonical".
The Orthodox Churches accepted effectively the same canon as the Roman Catholic one in 1672 at the Synod of Jerusalem, though the Russian Orthodox Church remiained ambivalent, and at least down to the mid-20th century tended to omit the Deuterocanonical texts from its canon.